Dabbs Greer Dies

Dabbs Greer, a veteran character actor who played the Rev. Robert Alden in the TV show “Little House on the Prairie,” has died. He was 90.

Greer, a Missouri native, died Saturday at Huntington Hospital after a battle with kidney and heart disease, his neighbor, Bill Klukken, told the Los Angeles Times. B.J. Goodwin, coroner for McDonald County, Mo., confirmed the death to The Associated Press.

Greer played “everyman” roles, from bus drivers to preachers and shopkeepers, in nearly 100 movies and hundreds of TV show episodes. He played a prison guard in the 1999 movie “The Green Mile.”

He played storekeeper Mr. Jonus on “Gunsmoke” and also was the minister who married Mike and Carol Brady in 1969 on TV’s “The Brady Bunch.”

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Greer never married and had no survivors.

Rest In Peace, Dabbs.